The new Dead.net has launched, so come on down!I'm one of the community forum hosts, and I haven't had time to check out all the other stuff yet, but some MOGgers are already over there checking it out and posting. There are still quite a few things not working quite right, so have patience. http://www.dead.net
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Many years ago I caught a really great, and really odd, movie called "The Music Teacher," which is about an opera legend in his old age, and his two students. The pivotal scene involves a duet of the two students at a competition, and both the movie scene and the song knocked my socks off. However, I know nothing of opera, and neither do most of my friends. So for years I've been trying to find th
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So back in the late '80s I was at a party at a neighbor's apartment, more or less wishing I was home instead of cooped up with all these people I didn't know, when over the speakers came the most stunning music. So stunning that I pounced on the person next to me and asked if he knew what it was.I don't know for a fact that the dude was a superciliious art student, but he pretty much acted like on
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Around the time Darkness on the Edge of Town came out, the hallowed (and soon to disappear) KSAN broadcast, possibly live, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in Cleveland. (Based on internal evidence, it was being simulcast live to half the Midwest when it was performed.) I rushed home to tape it. As luck would have it, KSAN reception, dicey in the best of times, was pretty rotten at my house
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Van at the Greek great! (and, frankly, these days I favor shows that start promptly at 7:30, have no lame opening act, and have me home by 10. As a kid I was deeply offended by Beatle and British Invasion shows in general that had half a dozen opening acts and then a half hour of the act you came to see--though looking back, the opening acts for the Rolling Stones at the Long Beach Arena mostly w
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There's a pivotal moment toward the end of the first volume of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, in which, as I vaguely recall several decades after reading it, the heroes discover the long-lost intergalactic equivalent of the Library of Alexandria, the repository of a document that, for reasons I've long since forgotten, contains the secret of life, the universe, and everything.They find it, ...
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